Harold Baines

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 175 lb

BornMarch 15, 1959 · Easton, MD, USA

MLB debutApril 10, 1980

Final gameSeptember 27, 2001

Seasons22 (1980–2001)

Chicago White Sox 1980–1989; Texas Rangers 1989; Oakland Athletics 1990; Texas Rangers 1990; Oakland Athletics 1991–1992; Baltimore Orioles 1993–1995; Chicago White Sox 1996; Baltimore Orioles 1997; Chicago White Sox 1997; Baltimore Orioles 1998–1999; Cleveland Indians 1999; Baltimore Orioles 2000; Chicago White Sox 2000–2001

Percentile snapshot

1997 season — qualified batters

137

16.1

510

3.5

452

4.2

2.8

136

24.5

19.6

41.3

RBI

32.9

44.8

90.2

88.8

.301

OBP

.375

69.9

SLG

.458

49.7

OPS

.832

60.8

wRC+

118.2

62.2

OPS+

120.3

66.4

wOBA

.364

sWAR

1.4

30.1

of 144 qualified 1997 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

118.6

77.2

OPS+

121.2

81.1

sWAR

38.4

97.7

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1980	141	518	491	55	125	23	6	13	49	19	65	2	4	.255	.281	.405	.686	79.7	86.6	.301	-0.2
1981	82	296	280	42	80	11	7	10	41	12	41	6	2	.286	.318	.482	.800	126.7	130.8	.355	1.5
1982	161	668	608	89	165	29	8	25	105	49	95	10	3	.271	.321	.469	.790	110.5	115.1	.342	2.3
1983	156	655	596	76	167	33	2	20	99	49	85	7	5	.280	.333	.443	.776	105.8	110.0	.339	2.0
1984	147	629	569	72	173	28	10	29	94	54	75	1	2	.304	.361	.541	.903	142.7	143.3	.393	4.6
1985	160	693	640	86	198	29	3	22	113	42	89	1	1	.309	.348	.467	.815	116.2	118.5	.355	2.9
1986	145	618	570	72	169	29	2	21	88	38	89	2	1	.296	.338	.465	.803	110.4	114.3	.348	2.1
1987	132	554	505	59	148	26	4	20	93	46	82	0	0	.293	.352	.479	.831	117.1	116.3	.362	1.7
1988	158	674	599	55	166	39	1	13	81	67	109	0	0	.277	.347	.411	.758	109.7	112.4	.338	1.3
1989	146	583	505	73	156	29	1	16	72	73	79	0	3	.309	.395	.465	.860	143.4	143.9	.388	3.4
1990	135	489	415	52	118	15	1	16	65	67	80	0	3	.284	.378	.441	.819	129.8	130.3	.369	1.9
1991	141	566	488	76	144	25	1	20	90	72	67	0	1	.295	.383	.473	.857	136.3	143.2	.374	2.7
1992	140	543	478	58	121	18	0	16	76	59	61	1	3	.253	.331	.391	.723	106.3	107.2	.331	0.7
1993	118	480	416	64	130	22	0	20	78	57	52	0	0	.313	.390	.510	.900	136.9	138.1	.397	2.4
1994	94	357	326	44	96	12	1	16	54	30	49	0	0	.294	.356	.485	.840	109.6	111.7	.365	0.6
1995	127	459	385	60	115	19	1	24	63	70	45	0	2	.299	.403	.540	.943	139.8	144.0	.406	2.4
1996	143	572	495	80	154	29	0	22	95	73	62	3	1	.311	.399	.503	.902	131.5	131.6	.395	2.6
1997	137	510	452	55	136	23	0	16	67	55	62	0	1	.301	.375	.458	.832	118.2	120.3	.364	1.4
1998	104	328	293	40	88	17	0	9	57	32	40	0	0	.300	.369	.451	.819	114.5	115.0	.359	0.8
1999	135	486	430	62	134	18	1	25	103	54	48	1	2	.312	.387	.533	.919	135.0	135.3	.399	2.4
2000	96	320	283	26	72	13	0	11	39	36	50	0	0	.254	.338	.417	.754	91.2	95.1	.328	-0.1
2001	32	94	84	3	11	1	0	0	6	8	16	0	0	.131	.202	.143	.345	-11.4	-7.7	.171	-1.2

Career totals

2,830

21st-most career G

11,092

38th-most career PA

9,908

34th-most career AB

1,299

129th-most career R

2,866

47th-most career H

488

75th-most career 2B

384

69th-most career HR

RBI

1,628

34th-most career RBI

1,062

104th-most career BB

1,441

97th-most career SO

.2893

427th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3557

SLG

.4647

335th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8204

349th-highest career OPS

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1991-05-07	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	4	4	1	0	3	7	1	14
1982-07-07	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	6	0	12
1984-09-17	CWS @ MIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	4	1	12
1995-08-19	BAL @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	5	0	10
1984-07-08	CLE @ CWS Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	1	4	0	9

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 2019 (Veterans - Today's Game Era)

1× Silver Slugger6× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.